Need to Respect

The only solution to solve the ethical problems caused by pollution is to respect and esteem the value of environment. Having rationality we need to transcend our ethical realm. In other words, we human have to extend the ethical horizon including the environment at large. The concept of right and wrong cannot be restricted to the human realm; ethics must go beyond human realm to the environment itself.  Thus, human person is not more a master or a dictator of the Earth community but the first among the equals who is responsible for the land community and this evokes the feeling of genuine kinship.

 Respecting the nature is also the expression of respecting the humanity as it shows that we respect for the other human as human being and also care for the future generations.Thus respecting the nature becomes immense conception to get to the bottom of the problem of environmental degradation. Because respect itself can heal the problem and along with it concrete accomplishments has to be in use in order to make it possible.  

POEM ON FUTURE 

When the last tree is cut down,

The last fish eaten and the last stream poisoned,

You will realize that you cannot eat money.

One day you come out from your house

And all you see id big puffs of black smoke and no tree

All you see the Cars and no birds!

All you smell is gasoline and no flowers!

What kind of life is that?

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LINE OF APPROACH AND ACTIONS TO SAVE OUR NATURE

            ‘Love the animals, love the plants, and love everything. If you love everything you will perceive the divine mystery in things.’

 Introduction:

            Life on earth is in trouble. That much we know. But how bad have things become and how fast are eventsmoving? In what will be the sixth grate mass extinction event? Gerardo Caballos of the national Autonomous University of Mexico and his colleagues have assessed, in a paper that came out on 19 June. The report says that vertebrates were vanishing at a rate 114 times faster than normal and that the last similar event was 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs disappeared, most probably as a result of an asteroids. Since 1900 more than 400 vertebrates have disappeared.

            Another study, led by Mark Williams, identifies some quite extraordinary novelties at the heart of current events. First past extinctions have been driven by massive volcanic outbursts, the disorder caused by major asteroid impact and the wrenching effect of rapid climate change.None of this has really figured in the biological crisis not even climate change, which is still only in its early stages. Instead the extinctions are being driven by the effect of just one single species, Homo sapiens. 

The earth is not the possession of individuals, communities, or nations. The earth is the common house of humankind. Human responsibility in this common house is the greatest. It is very urgent for us to draw a plan- a series of action-to conserve the species of the planet, to care for all forms of life, to protect the natural resources and to promote the beauty and verity in nature.

At the time when we try to set things right, Pope Francis gives us the good news of hope in the future. His recent encyclical, ‘Laudato Si’ summons the whole world to examine our present way of life and re-set a different life-style which supports ecosystems and the life of all species.We are totally convinced that time has come to act, to repair what can be repaired to prepare the future, so that humanity will have further progressed in its evolution in a more conscious and fair world, the Earth will still be capable of providing a shelter for its inhabitants.

Moral Degradation

            There are many causes of moral degradation, including poor parenting, the condoning attitude of society, influence of media, family breakdowns and increased freedom. Some of the analysis on the effect of pollution depict that pollution is not only a moral dispute but it is an expression of moral degradation. It reduces the value of the nature, animates and other species, ultimately the human race. It also breaks the relationship between human beings and eco-system.

Third World Exploitation

            As the vulnerable are the target to be victim, the victims of pollution and other ecological perils are the third world (economically poorer countries). The more industrialized countries in order to reduce their ecological problem dump the toxic industrial wastes, radio-active materials in poorer countries especially by the multinational companies. And these poorer countries do not have the technology to monitor the waste materials and sometimes the officials are bribed. An example for this exploitation: in 1946, the US ordered the inhabitants of Bikini Atoll (a small island in the Pacific Ocean) to vacate the Island to make way for nuclear bomb testing. Twenty years later the indigenous people returned to their homeland but found it barren waste.  The same US is the cause of 20 percent of air pollution in the world while it is the country only of 4 percent of the population. The poorer countries are not able to resist the effect of these deadly gases. Thus the third world countries are exploited through pollution. 

Consumerism

            Consumerism is the excessive desire possesses things, in human beings induced by the advertisement and other means of communication. The consumerist attitude is also the cause for pollution. When a new thing arrives, the old things are not properly disposed and it pollutes the land and environment and it also troubles the biosphere. The advertisements induce people to fall in consumerism and the result is pollution by improper disposal of things which become pollutants of the environment.  Consumerism is one of the expressions of human greed, which also affects the eco-system.  It is the hike in production that is largely responsible for ecological hazards in every society all over the world.

Utilitarianism

 The Utilitarianism is a consequential ethic:  The rightness or wrongness of an action depends only upon the consequences of the action. This theory holds that utility or usefulness is the norm of morality because what is useful is always considered to be good. Although every good thing is useful to all sometimes every useful thing is not good to all. Ultimately, the victim of such kind is the environment. The theory of utility complements human chauvinism as the concept of usefulness depends on human interest. Consequently, other species in the biosphere are under risk. This theory also degrades environment as it receives just instrumental value. In utilitarianism, therefore, the only good thing is some form of happiness, or pain aversion, and actions are deemed ethical or unethical by how effectively they can maximize happiness and avoid pain.